Hard News

On October 6, 2016-- Chris went in for a colonoscopy and they found a mass in his colon.  A week later it was confirmed that the mass was indeed cancerous.  As you can believe,  it turned our world upside down.  Chris had just been released as bishop for our ward the week before and had valiantly served in that calling for 5 years.  He also the past year had been working a rotational position for his company in Delaware.  We were looking forward to having him home more and spending quality time with him.  So now...... fighting cancer is our new mission.  We at this point don't know what stage he is at.  They were worried the cancer had spread to his liver, but with 2 different CT scans they aren't worried about that.  He also got a scan of his lungs and that came back clear!!!  Life has been full of scans, blood work, and many dr. appointments.  Today, Chris will get surgery to remove 1/3 of his colon where the mass is.  At that time, they will take out the lymph nodes that are around the mass, which the surgeon is worried about. The lymph nodes will be biopsied to see if the cancer has spread.   We are ready to get more answers and to  tackle cancer!!! We are so appreciative of everyone's prayers and fasting in our behalf.  Believe me, we can feel them and our burdens have been made light. We our humbled by all the goodness around us for such amazing family, friends, neighbors, and ward family who have come to our aid by bringing dinner, helping with the kids, driving carpools, countless treats, goodies and gifts.  We have been so blessed and through all this we feel peace that everything will be ok.

We feel we are at a point where doing a blog is the best way to update everyone on Chris' condition. Feel free to tell people about this blog, if they don't know about it,  we just ask that you don't share this blog on social media.  

We are ready to move forward and be FIERCE---- and as our 11 yr old says " We are going to kick CANCER in its face!!!!!!